Quip vs Quippy - What's the difference?
quip | quippy |
A smart, sarcastic turn or jest; a taunt; a severe retort or comeback; a gibe.
* Milton
* Tennyson
To make a quip.
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To taunt; to treat with quips.
* Spenser
Joky; inclined to or characterised by quipping.
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As a noun quip
is a smart, sarcastic turn or jest; a taunt; a severe retort or comeback; a gibe.As a verb quip
is to make a quip.As an adjective quippy is
joky; inclined to or characterised by quipping.quip
English
Noun
(en noun)- Quips , and cranks, and wanton wiles.
- He was full of joke and jest, / But all his merry quips are o'er.
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- the more he laughs, and does her closely quip
quippy
English
Adjective
(er)- I usually flinch at the quippy philosophies espoused on car bumper stickers...
- One of them told us in a quippy comment: “we are not architects”.
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